Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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THE ROUND TABLE 31 Edmund Dodd: “I’d like to have you for dinner Sunday. Chester Ebe: “I think you’ll find me rather tough. ’ Miss Hussong (speaking about Dan- iel Webster) : “One of the faults of all great men is laziness. Webster shared this fault, in that he didn’t like routine work.’’ Izy Carden: “I’m not fond of rou- tine work myself.’ Once a friend of Mark Twain’s was conversing with him regarding a ter- rible affliction of a person known to them both. The friend said, “Can you imagine anything worse than having diptheria and scarlet fever at the same time?’’ “Yes’ , replied Mark, “I can easily imagine some things worse than that— for instance, rheumatism and St. Vitus’ dance! ’ Ed Irwin: “Father, can you sign your name with your eyes shut?’ Capt. Irwin: “Certainly.” Ed: “Well, then, please shut your eyes and sign my report card.” Walt: “What is your idea of clean sport?” Bailey: “Swimming.” Mr. Newrich (examining curio): “Two thousand years old? You can’t kid me! Why, it’s only 1924 now!” “William Penn was a short stubby man.” “Ah, the original stub pen.” Mr. Walbach in Problems Class: “One product in which supply always exceeds demand, is trouble.” Doring: “What word is never pro- nounced right.” Bill Elliolt: “Don’t know; give it up.” Doring: “Wrong, you poor fish.” Mr. Samuels: “Can you explain why it is that the earth gives off light of it’s own?” Gerald Baldwin: “Because there’s so many bright people on it.” Mr. Samuels: “Then R. B. H. S. must be a dark spot.” Lost! Lost on Broad St.—An umbrella, by old gentleman with ivory head. Bennett: “I’d like to see some- thing cheap in a straw hat.” Clerk: “Try this one on, the mirror is at your left.” Misunderstood Cook: “For two cents, I’d knock your head off.” Leddy: “I’m sorry, but I haven’t got the money—honest! Exchange. Dot: “What is the hardest thing about ice skating?” Cliff: “The ice.” Statistics—Killed by gas, 1923. 32 inhaled it; 140 lighted matches in it; 5000 stepped on it. Ed. McDermott (in Army and Navy Store): “Do you keep white ducks?” Salesman: “Vat chu tink dis is, a poultry store?” “Funny thing about these 15-cent black socks.” “Every time I walk, they run.”

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Teacher in Science: “George, what makes people see stars.” Geo. Williamson: “Darkness.” She held out her hand. The young man took it and departed. Miss Rowe: “Your answer is as clear as mud.” Frank Warner: “Well it covers the ground doesn’t it?” —O— Gertrude Britton: “Roosevelt had his rough-riders and became presi- dent.’ Bill Greenwood: “Then how about Ford?” Mrs. Pearsoll (Reading to Class) : “So the king sentenced him to be thrown into a cauldron of boiling soap and water.” Morgan Colio: “What Lux! What Lux!” Miss Gates (in history class): “What started the trouble at ancient Troy?” Ned Mix: “A beauty contest.” Wanted—some real good jokes, not yet published. Heard in Baby Latin class— “Now, does anyone know the mean- ing of ‘Veni, vidi, vici ”? G. Powers (enthusiastically): “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” Latin 10B— “Helvitii ratibus-iunctis etc.” G. Dennis—“The Helvetians joined the navy.” English 1 1B, room 24— “Cassius’ idea of suicide was to do it and then say no more about it.” Mrs. Crandall: “Why were the French angry because the English Channel was not called the French Channel?” Chet: “Because it was too deep for the English.” Kaiser: “Wake up Charlie, how’d you sleep?” Bennett: “Why did you ever put me in a four poster. I’ve been trying to make touchdowns all night.” Mr. Samuels: “What else does sea water contain besides sodium chlor- ide?” Decker: “Fish!”

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32 TIIE ROUND TABLE “Why did Mary insist on being mar- q ried in an aeroplane?” “I don’t know, unless it was because she thought no man on earth good enough for her.” “What’s the noisiest game in the world?” “Tennis. Because it is played with a racket.” Soph (to Frosh who had written his first theme): “What’s the matter?” Frosh: “Why, I wrote a long flow- ing theme on milk—and the Profes- sor’s condensed it.” A girl can be gay in a little coupe; In a taxicab she can be jolly. But the girl worth while Is the girl who can smile When you take her home on a trolley. “Yes, I’m engaged to be married, and I’ve only known the girl two days.” “What folly!” “Ziegfields.” “Oh, where, oh, where has my poly- gon? Oh, where, oh, where can it be?” “Hush, my child; it’s simply gone Up the geomet-tree.” “I have heard said ---------1 That Baby Ion fell. And Ninevah was destroyed. And -----------” Someone in class “Tyre was punctured.” —o— Dad: “Is there anything worse than to be old and bent?” Son: “Yes, to be young and broke.” Compliments of Sophomore glass